A very warm welcome to my teeny, tiny part of the huge world of blogging. This is where I am hoping to share my passion for making hand made greeting cards.
So - why "Always with a Heart"? Well this is for two reasons. Firstly, it is because every card I produce always carries a heart on it somewhere. This can be big and bold or small and almost hidden - the fun sometimes is just trying to find it!
Secondly it is because I put my heart into everything I produce.
I hope that any visitors enjoy seeing what I post. If you drop by then please leave me a comment so that I know you called. It would be nice to know that you have found my heart in what I do.

Sadly he needed to go to work on his birthday .. .. hopefully he didn't work too hard and has had a lovely day.

Now round to the pancake results from Saturday night. We actually changed the system this year so that no-one knew exactly how many pancakes everyone had eaten until the end. Normally we have a tick chart going but this time we handed out a slip of paper when someone collected a pancake and the pancake eater would write their name on the paper and post it in a little ballot box!!

So there was no clue as to how many pancakes people were eating .. .. much more tricky for the serious contenders!!

As you know my Sis was desperate to win .. .. but she didn't :-(

There was a draw between my lovely DIL and my niece's boyfriend. We only have one trophy so a winner had to be found. But how? There was no pancake batter left?!?!?!?

So a different kind of "eat off" was instigated .. .. starting with chocolate truffles (which they had no problem polishing off) and then being the first to eat 5 dry cheese crackers. Phew!! How could they!?!?!?

I just cannot believe they could actually fit any more in. Especially considering it was on top of the 16 pancakes they had already eaten.

I have a feeling that new rules as to how a draw will be dealt with in the future will be being thought up before next year's contest!! LOL!!!

So 140 pancakes in total .. .. 10 of them were mine .. .. and I still managed to lose weight in the Monday weigh in!! Perhaps pancakes aren't fattening after all!!! But I do find that actually cooking them makes you not want to eat quite so many.

Just to finish off ... there is a bit of good news .. .. you may remember the lovely Penny Black stamp I used on my Happy Handy Hippo card last Monday here

Well the slapstick stamp was so popular that it was snapped up and out of stock by the time my card was posted .. .. but now you will be pleased to know it is available again at Handy Hippo here.

HOW MANY PANCAKES!?!?! I get full after about 6 smallish ones. Hats off to your DIL and niece's boyfriend. Perhaps you all need to visit My Old Dutch when next in London. They have about 30 different pancakes (some sweet and some savoury). And they get served on those huge blue and white Dutch plates. I have only managed to eat 2 once.

What a great card! Love that image, his expression is priceless. OMG I have a tummy ache after reading about your pancake challenge. My father loved my Mom's pancakes, just to tease her he'd call them wagon wheels. As in Can we have some of them wagon wheels. Darn good wagon wheels. I'll bet after eating so many you all felt like you had wagon wheels in your tummies. Blessings Bernie

Grat card - yes, I'm kinda late getting round to this post but better late than never! Shame he had to work on his birthday. The pancake eat-in sounds like fun but your 10 pancakes are about 6 more than I could manage - depending on size of course :) So congrats on still managing to lose a bit of weight. Elizabeth x

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